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Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there is still time to influence how that future will play out.

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it is a big problem.

It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it is not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.